Eh... Wouldn't be impressed if it did "only" $107m today. Yes I heard what I just said

We're having a 100m+ Saturday but eh, whatever. Happens never but unimpressed.

Anyone who would have predicted this to get the OW record in two days would have been laughed at. Only people laughing now is Disney. They should go ahead and rename Disney World to Marvel world.

I disagree with the notion that this new record will not be beaten. Disney now owns Deadpool and X-Men. Add them to the current mix with Black Panther replacing Iron Man as Marvels new most popular character and I think the record could be approached. (Putting Deadpool in a PG-13 rated movie will be tough though ) Most of the "newer" marvel characters were hardly in Endgame. The new phase needs a villain as badass as Thanos, and that is going to be hard to do. But there is nothing outside of the marvel cinematic universe that will come close to touching this.

I don't think BP can simply be slotted in to replace Iron Man. He's popular mainly with one demo group. That said records are made to be broken and one day this one will be. However - it will be due to more of a build up to a climax rather than just throwing characters in together. It will be both actually.

Is Endgame really a conclusion of the MCU? Because I can't see Iron Man, Black Panther, Captain Marvel, et al not having a sequel.

It's a game changer OW that only few films can truly claim - probably only TFA, The Avengers, Spider-Man 1 and possibly ID4. At least in the last 30 years.

Certainly not. It's just the end of the infinity saga. New phases and sagas will be made from here on with many of the current characters. But it is the end of the road for some.

I think so.

Aside from Chris Evans' Captain America (the actor said he's done with the character), I don't see any of these moneymakers going away.

Chris Evans has said that many times before but still he played the guy for ten years

They can always find some reason to come back (e.g. entering from another universe). Given the popularity of these characters, the only thing hindering their comeback would be the actors' contractual agreement.

RTH is saying 108-112m. Midpoint should confirm 360m+ for the weekend. So it has beaten OW record by 40% !!!! Not sure when was the last time OW record was broken by this big a margin.

How many people are seeing Endgame without having seen Infinity War or most of the other movies? That's the only way it can be this big. I guess you can enjoy this without knowing all the details from the other movies...right?

I don't think that's true, you need to know some details from a lot of past movies to fully enjoy this.

Infinity War has been on Netflix for awhile, that helps.

I think a majority of people haven't seen all of the MCU films but this is pretty much the pinnacle of 'must see' in pop culture.

I think almost everyone seeing this has seen IW. That made over $600m. The audience has just move up their viewing to the opening weekend.

This.

Black Panther and Cap Marvel have nowhere near the charisma of RDJ's IM. At least, at the moment. Both are kinda boring honestly. The former is overshadowed by almost his entire supporting cast and the latter is Superman levels of interesting.

I can't see any film do this in a while but I do think The Lion King might have the slimmest, slimmest of chances.

Shorter run time. Halo of trailer views in front of this. Really the peak of Disney animation from the last 50 years since the hey day. TLK was the peak of the Disney animation "universe" so to speak of the 90's. Mermaid, BATB, Aladdin, then TLK as the peak, which feels so familiar...

BATB made $174,750,616 OW. The original made $218,967,620 and adjusts to $408,727,000 over all of its releases.

Meanwhile, TLK's domestic Lifetime Adj. Gross: $803,209,300, double BATB. To show the magnitude of this film, its September re-release in 3D made $107,350,800 alone which is ridiculous.

17 Jurassic Park Uni. $825,894,500 $402,828,120 1993^
19 The Lion King BV $803,209,300 $422,783,777 1994^

Both JP and TLK adjust to about the same attendance. JP4 broke the OW record and there are still 4 JP movies since the original's release. TLK meanwhile has had no real theatrical follow ups. There is so much more pent up demand here for TLK then there was for JW.

Think it's going to far outpace JW and BATB. Getting the record won't likely happen but $275 m + I think OW could happen. TLK has double the admissions of BATB. If it followed the same ratio for OW's TLK would do $349 m.

Total wise could still beat Avengers primarily because all of the songs will push repeat viewings for a long time.

Biggest drawback is the cheaper family tickets.

so much truth

750m+

All records get broken. This will to. It’ll most likely be from a movie we least expect.

I think Deadpool has as much charisma as RDJ as Iron Man. I look forward to a movie with Thor, Deadpool and Drax having a conversation. Comedic gold!

My theater is usually stronger than average on Saturday. Thur and Fri we were close to the national PTA. Saturday we only dropped 17% from the Friday gross incl. previews. Saturday vs. Fri w/o previews was up 26%. Crazy considering how huge Friday was.

It's the biggest % jump since The Lost World breaking Batman Forever's record (close to 40%).

But this is far more impressive considering the record may be broken by over $100m in just one year!!! Insanity!

OMG! didn't think of that until now. Oh god please make this happen